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I can't tell you how proud I am of myself! Started this two days ago and finished it today. It's been long ago that I actually worked that hard and passionately on a painting :3

I just LOVE That moment when you derp around and then suddenly inspiration HITS you and then you can create awesome stuff on a big white canvas!!EPIC FIERY SUNSET WITH RUNNING CHEETAH. BOOM.

SO HAPPEH

Well I'm super happy with how this came out! The sky looks a bit sketchy or speedpaint-ish, but I like that style. For the cheetah I tried out a new shading style, with a couple of tips from *Tatchit's tutorial [link] :'D

I've never written a critique before, but now I have nothing to critique because it's so EFFING AMAZING.

First, I love how dark the ground is, and then the contrast of the lightness of the burning sky. LOVELOVELOVELOVE. Such beautiful landscaping you got there, I'm going to cry. The sky looks like its actually burning, less like fire, and more like a flowing river of lava, that's, er, flipped upside-down. :3 It's amazing in a slightly strange, very cool way.

And then there is the cheetah. AAAAHAHHAAHHH! I love so much . . .you have all the anatomy perfectly, along with the beautiful, windswept fluffiness of the fur. The colors are just perfect too, shadows added in just the right places. I love the expression. It's almost like the cat is running from something, but is almost excited about it. Or maybe its chasing something, which would make a bit more sense. XD

Anyways, this is just a beautiful piece of work that deserves to be a daily Deviation if I ever saw one. :3 The sky is truly phenomenal, and the cheetah has a certain vibe that makes it cute, dangerous, dark, light, and all these other amazing aspects at the same time.

I've been meaning to comment on this one for awhile. It's just so gorgeous. That sky is amazingly colored too Norey. Sunsets are just so moving and dramatic. And good job for you for trying a new way of shading. Did you end up liking that style? I think it turned out very wonderful looking. I really like downloading the image so I can see how your hard work and man the fur looks great.

Well I really love that painterly-speedpaint-ish style, it gives a bit of spontanousity to it, some freedom, you can see the freedom in every brush stroke 8DI still have no idea which style is "my" style when it comes to digital art, to me it seems as if I am trying out something completely new every time I paint digitally... Sometimes lineless and fluffy, sometimes rather lined and ordinary. Just whatever flaots my boat in the very second XD